Overdressed: Responsible Shopping in the Age of Cheap Fashion - Hardcover

Cline, Elizabeth

 
9781591844617: Overdressed: Responsible Shopping in the Age of Cheap Fashion
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1591844614 ISBN 13: 9781591844617
Verlag: Penguin, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Fast fashion and disposable clothing have become our new norms. We buy ten-dollar shoes from Target that disintegrate within a month and make weekly pilgrimages to Forever 21 and H&M. Elizabeth Cline argues that this rapid cycle of consumption isn't just erasing our sense of style and causing massive harm to the environment and human rights-it's also bad for our souls.

Cline documents her own transformation from fast-fashion addict to conscientious shopper. She takes a long look at her overstuffed closet, resoles her cheap imported boots, travels to the world's only living-wage garment factory, and seeks out cutting-edge local and sustainable fashion, all on her journey to find antidotes to out-of-control shopping.

Cline looks at the impact here and abroad of America's drastic increase in inexpensive clothing imports, visiting cheap-chic factories in Bangladesh and China and exploring the problems caused by all those castoffs we donate to the Salvation Army. She also shows how consumers can vote with their dollars to grow the sustainable clothing industry, reign in the conventional apparel market, and wear their clothes with pride.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Elizabeth Cline has written for AMCtv.com, The Daily Beast, New York Magazine, Popular Science, The New Republic, The Village Voice, and seedmagazine.com. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit overdressedthebook.com.

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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1591844614
ISBN 13 
9781591844617
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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